Xia Shouzhong: "Back to your majesty, Miss Baochai said that she would like to let your majesty make the decision."
Emperor Longqing: "Hahaha! I see, Xue Aiqing, you and Xue Baochai are in love, and I am naturally happy with the beauty of adulthood. After my father's birthday banquet, I will grant you a marriage!"
Xue Hong: "I thank the Holy God for His grace!"
Xia Shouzhong: "Your Majesty, Lord Marquis, I have some good news that I haven't had time to tell yet."
Emperor Longqing laughed and scolded: "You old man, why don't you tell me what you have to say? Is it possible that you have to keep it a secret?"
Xia Shouzhong: "Before I came to the Queen, the Queen had already accepted Miss Baochai as her adopted daughter."
Emperor Longqing's heart was filled with joy. He was indeed my son, and he had a clear understanding with me.
Emperor Longqing smiled on the surface: "Oh? So, Baochai can be regarded as half of my daughter? Xue Aiqing, don't you become half of my son-in-law? Hahahaha!"
The Supreme Emperor and Prince Yi Zhong were unhappy to the extreme, but it was not easy to get angry. After all, at today's birthday banquet, they also saw the majesty of Emperor Longqing in the hearts of the ministers.
Even Jia She, the prince's diehard loyalist, backed down.
Although most of the nobles still supported the Supreme Emperor, these people could not muster a hundred thousand troops in total, and they were not in the capital, so they were beyond their reach.
In this arm-wrestling, Emperor Longqing won a great victory.
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After Xue Hong received the order to thank him, he exited the back hall. As soon as he arrived at the front hall, he heard the buzzing discussion of the officials.
I saw a huge cage placed outside the temple. In the cage, there was a giraffe whose body was half eaten, and a white tiger.
The white tiger was probably full, his belly was round, and he was sleeping in the cage.
Xue Hong returned to his seat, saw Zhu Hui with a smirk on his face, and subconsciously asked: "Your Highness, what did you do?"
Zhu Hui: "This is the fun I'm talking about. This is a rare and exotic animal that the Zhen family spent a lot of money to collect and prepare to present it to my grandpa. The one with the long neck is said to be a unicorn."
I don’t know which magician the Zhen family heard from, but Qilin is a mythical beast. Like the white tiger, both are spiritual and will not attack each other, so putting them together makes the Qilin beast even more powerful."
"Tch! They don't know if that long-necked thing is a mythical beast? Although they don't know what method the Zhen family used to prevent the white tiger from eating this long-necked animal.
But as far as I know, frightened beasts will arouse their bestiality, so I asked the band to beat the drums and dance. So..."
Xue Hong: "Didn't you do this?"
Zhu Hui: "Junchen, you can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense! Be careful, I will sue you for slander."
Chen Chen: "Tiger hunting is indeed a good show, but the Zhen family is in big trouble.
Using a fake unicorn to deceive the emperor and the supreme emperor is a crime that is both great and small."
Xue Hong didn't care about this, after all, he was about to get engaged to Baochai.
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After the Emperor's birthday banquet, the head of the Zhen family performed a show of kowtowing and crying, explaining that he had just been deceived, and begged the Emperor to show mercy.
In the end, after being severely beaten and bleeding, Emperor Longqing graciously let the Zhen family go for the sake of the Supreme Emperor.
On the second day of the birthday banquet, two imperial edicts came to Xue Mansion.
One is the marriage decree issued by Emperor Longqing, and the protagonists are Xue Hong and Baochai.
The other one was to confer Baochai with the title of Lord of Hengwu County. He was given a royal manor and a hundred taels of gold.
When the two decrees came out, the capital instantly caused a huge commotion.
In just one day, the story of Xue Hong and Baochai has been widely circulated, and has a tendency to replace The Romance of the West Chamber.
Xue Hong and Baochai were childhood sweethearts. In order to repay Duke Xue for raising them, Xue Hong volunteered to join the family tree to revitalize the Xue family. Later, he was made a marquis for his merits and was appreciated by Emperor Longqing.
Emperor Longqing saw the friendship between the two and ordered Xue Hong to leave his clan and establish a new clan so that the lovers could finally get married.
Of course, there are other versions of these stories.
The story of Xue Hong and Baochai suddenly became the envy of men and women in the capital.
Especially among the women waiting to be married in the capital, I don’t know how many people envied Baochai.
Although Xue Hong was only seventeen years old, he contributed crops, served in the Ministry of Industry, improved firearms, led troops in Liaodong Town, and defeated the Later Jin Dynasty with more than 100,000 troops.
He led 10,000 troops by boat, marched eastward to Japan, quelled 200,000 rebels, and rescued the Japanese king.
With these achievements alone, Xue Hong is enough to be recorded in history.
Moreover, Zhang Sheng in Romance of the West Chamber failed Cui Yingying in the end and walked away.
Although Xue Hong was born into a poor family, he was eventually granted the title of Marquis due to his meritorious service, and was granted a marriage by the Holy Father, and finally got married to Xue Baochai.
This story is no better than The West Chamber!!!
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In the Jia Mansion, Mrs. Wang said angrily: "If I knew! Baochai's child had such great fortune, he would have fallen into the eyes of the Queen..."
Jia Mu snorted coldly and scolded: "Idiot! Do you think the Queen just likes Baochai? There are many beautiful girls, why don't you see the Queen accepting others as adopted daughters?"
Although Jia Zheng is pedantic, he is not stupid after all: "Mother, what do you mean...because of Xue Hong?"
Jia Mu nodded and sighed: "Mr. Xue is so lucky, the Xue family is so lucky..."
Mrs. Wang: "Oh...it's useless to say anything now. If I had known that Xue Hong's child had such ability, it would have been good to have Yingchun and Tanchun as concubines."
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In the back house of Rongguo Mansion, Wang Xifeng and Qin Keqing were lying together and talking about the secrets of the boudoir.
Wang Xifeng: "Alas! How come all the good things in the world happen to cousin Baochai.
Not only did I have two brothers whom I loved dearly since childhood, they were able to marry their ideal husband when they grew up, and the marriage was granted by the Holy Spirit.
Because of cousin Xue Hong’s contribution, he was favored by the Queen and was named the County Lord by the Holy Emperor.”
Qin Keqing inevitably had a little jealousy in her heart, but she was more thankful and helpless.
Qin Keqing: "Aunt Feng, human life is different, and you can't force it."
Wang Xifeng took advantage of Qin Keqing's emotion and touched Qin Keqing's plump penis. Qin Keqing was so embarrassed that she wanted to fight back.
Wang Xifeng quickly changed the subject: "Ke Qing, I went to Xue Mansion some time ago, guess what I saw?"
"Twenty-five thousand taels of silver, cousin Xue Hong gave it directly to cousin Baochai, saying it was for cousin Baochai's pocket money.
Didn't he just leave the house with a clean body? Where did he get so much money? My job of making money is only a few hundred taels a month."
Qin Keqing had some guesses: "Xue Gongzi led troops to conquer the south and the north. He defeated the armies of the Later Jin Dynasty and the Mongolian tribes. Later, he led the troops to pacify most of Japan. Even if he led troops to get something, he would only need more than twenty or thirty.
Ten thousand silver coins."
Wang Xifeng hugged Qin Keqing and said dejectedly: "Alas! Cousin Baochai will be envied by many women in her future life.
She has no father-in-law and mother-in-law. When she gets married, she becomes a top-notch marquise. She also has the title of county lord and has her own village. Moreover, the Hou Wen Mansion must have a rich family and be favored by the Holy Emperor.
Alas~"
Qin Keqing thought of Xue Hong who was treating her illness, suppressed the unrealistic thoughts in her heart, and finally could only sigh deeply, silently blessing Xue Hong and Baochai in her heart.